Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. When a person with dementia gets something fundamental wrong — the year it is, your relationship to them — it can be difficult to know what to do.

How Do Age, Sex, Hormones and Genetics Affect Dementia Biomarkers in the Blood? Apr. 16, 2025 — A new study has found important clues about the roles age, sex, hormonal changes and genetics play ...

Bringing down high blood pressure reduces the risk of dementia and cognitive impairment, according to a large study of people in China. Many studies have linked high blood pressure, also known as ...

Now, an increased risk of dementia can be added to the list, according to a large study of more than 6 million people published April 14 in the journal JAMA Neurology. “Someone who has an ...

I retired and subsequently learned that I had a devastating rare dementia with a very short lifespan. Instead of providing me support, my friends disappeared from my life, at the time I needed ...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 21 — Do the shops in your neighbourhood know how they can support people with dementia to help them continue living well in their community? According to the UK charity Alzheimer’s ...

Objective Over 850 000 people live with dementia in the UK. A proportion of these people are South Asians, who make up over 5% of the total UK population. Little is known about the prevalence, ...

Cognitive decline usually precedes dementia, an ageing-related condition that steadily impairs one's speech, memory and language. The phase 3 clinical trial involved nearly 34,000 patients aged ...

A new study has found a link between emergency care for cannabis and an “increased risk” of dementia Getty A new study of more than 6 million people found that those who went to the ER for ...

Around 57 million people worldwide have dementia. While most cases of dementia are diagnosed in older adults, about 7 per cent of cases occur in people under 65. This number may be even higher as ...

The Alzheimer’s Association and its advocacy arm, Alzheimer’s Impact Movement, are calling on Congress to increase National Institutes of Health funding for dementia research by an additional $113.5 ...